Using mercurial, it can’t prompt me for a password. It comes up as abort: http authorization required

There are a few little niggly things like this which makes it handy to have the windows console available at your fingertips. You can launch cmd.exe from within cygwin, but that doesn’t solve the problem as you are still using the same input/output from the terminal. So I wrote a very simple script which will launch cmd in the current working directory.